Managing Anxiety When You’re a People-Pleaser and Perfectionist
For years, I was a people-pleaser, perfectionist, and never felt good enough. I focused on making others happy, avoiding failure and criticism, and constantly tried to prove my worth. I was also riddled with anxiety. Perhaps you can relate. In this article, we’ll explore the connection between anxiety, people-pleasing, and perfectionism. And I’ll offer some […]
How to Support Your Partner or Children with Anxiety: 5 Things to Try
If you’ve never struggled with anxiety, anxiety attacks, panic, or excessive worry, then it may be challenging for you to know how to support people in your life when they do. Being someone that has had GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder) for most of my life, it can be challenging to feel understood. Even having an […]
Anxiety, the thief of mental peace
And what about the feelings that this state suggests to you? Have you found yourself thinking and projecting something that is just about to happen but doesn’t depend on you to change the course of its direction? Have you realized that you can lose focus on the present because your mind is projecting a future […]
Healing Your Past With Meditation
We all know it is not possible to roll back time or undo or change bad decisions we made in the past, however using meditation we can change the way we feel about the bad decisions we made in the past so that they will stop tormenting us here in the present. We all carry […]
How Meditation Can Help Creativity
How do you encourage creativity? The unfortunate irony is that the more you try to ‘force’ your creativity, the less likely it is to come. The less likely you are to have that aha moment. The reason for this is that when we try and force anything, we become stressed – physiologically aroused. We produce […]
Benefits of Meditation for the Wellness of Ourselves
Meditation, an exercise recommended for everyone, but especially those with hectic, stressful lifestyles, is defined as an engagement in contemplation, especially of a spiritual or devotional nature. Meditation has been shown to relieve stress and promote overall good health, by simply reflecting upon our day, and finding happiness within ourselves. This and other mind exercises […]
Meditation For Minds That Never Slow
I ask my oldest son all the time (when he is quiet, & he is quiet a lot of the time) “What are you thinking honey?” and he always says, “nothing”. Which prompts me to say “Like nothing? You aren’t having any thoughts?” With the normal response being “No, not really.” So, this blog isn’t […]
Growth Mindset: Discussion Questions
A growth mindset perspective can be used when interacting with peers, family or friends, even colleagues. Everyone may have times when they get in the way of their own success and become their own worst enemy. When they can change their mindset, they can unlock a whole new world that stops the block that keeps […]
Journaling to Increase a Growth Mindset
Journaling to Increase a Growth Mindset If you have been keeping up with my blog, I can feel you rolling your eye from here. “Another journalling post! Does this woman do nothing but write in her journal? Yes, pretty much.” I can almost hear a collective suspire and the words being spoken “who has time […]
Growth Mindset: How to Start and End Your Day With Purpose
The Morning Miracle Much has also been saying about the significance of our morning routine. How we start the day will set the tone for the rest. It has been given special significance in many esoteric texts, especially in Ayurveda and Zen Buddhism schools. If we get our mornings right, it will set us up […]